Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
电影就那回事，还是影像好看，现在Panavision也太牛逼了吧，边看还在边品每一帧影像里的灰调子，理想里的伊尔福、tmax就是那种不太暗，暗里又有层次的灰。
清晰细腻，温暖动人。在严酷的成人世界孩子们无知无觉地快乐着。人物刻画到光影处理都是满分作品。
《罗马》在贝尔法斯特。最喜欢的是《正午》《双虎屠龙》与故事形成的互文（但砖头砸枪是什么鬼x）不过现在世界电影配乐风格都是金曲捞吗…………
北爱版《童年往事》，巧的是被套上了北爱的激进岁月，呼应了当下这个大撕裂的时代，每年的颁奖季都有这么几部私心重又步步踩点得分的命题作文，应景但并不讨巧，顶多是这个风口的注脚。
萨克斯风独特的音色婉转萦绕，把一段脑海里沉静的回忆缓缓带出。童年是沉静的，感知外界事物时是迟钝的。不知大人为何奔波，不知街道为何纷扰。肯尼思·布拉纳以《罗马》的方式呈现出自己的童年往事，一段弥足珍贵的童年记忆。电影是彩色的，而观众席是黑白的，话剧是彩色的，而观赏者是黑白的，梦境是彩色的，而回忆是黑白的。用一束鲜花告别懵懂的情感。一切都是懵懂而迟钝的。直到多年后，才发觉原来“当时只道是寻常”的，都是鎏金的岁月。｜7.5
还不错，就是配音和动画片有点区别，乍一听，有点别扭，配乐很棒
逝去的人们或许失去色彩，但记忆不会。
设备越来越高级，队员越来越多
剧中人均爱尔兰文学学士的贝尔法斯特与其说是电影，不如说是一出戏剧，或者是离乡者的镇魂曲。神剧本！7
要素非常齐全：黑白画面历史印记儿童私人回忆乡愁唱歌跳舞，然而问题在于出自Branagh就感觉非常刻意匠气，诚意不足。
儿童电影，不能以成人的标准来衡量。小孩子喜欢才是硬道理。
@STHLM电影节 太适合做闭幕电影了，忧伤又暖心。爱尔兰版jojo rabbit
出乎意料的好看，炫目的众多高级装备，来了骑摩托车的新伙伴，旺旺期待下一部大电影，旺旺再一次在阿奇被抓的时候痛哭，真是个情感敏感的孩子呢
每个导演心中都有一个《罗马》，但肯尼思·布拉纳并不是阿方索·卡隆。
总的来说还算是喜欢吧，但看完这部电影觉得好遗憾，因为换个导演拍这个电影观感会好很多，整部电影给我的感觉就是不协调的感觉很重，导演从头到尾用到了很多电影拍摄的技巧或者说是方法，也致敬了特别多好莱坞（怎么全是好莱坞）60年代甚至更早的电影，但给我的感觉是这些电影方法是为了表现而表现，致敬也一样，对电影的整体发展并没有起到太多的作用，反而让电影显得有点奇怪。除了正午以外我真的不知道导演致敬的那些电影到底是在干嘛，可能是他在回顾自己的童年吧。不过本片优点其实也是不少的，剧本非常不错，群戏很出色，后半段拍的还是挺有感觉的。妈妈的表演最好，发挥也最大，爷爷其次，爸爸和奶奶的表现也都非常不错，但这个小男孩反而一般，有点缺乏灵性。最后吐槽一下疑似奥妙的广告植入，我真的有笑到
个人观感：阿方索·卡隆《罗马 Roma》＞肯尼思·布拉纳《贝尔法斯特 Belfast》。—— 尽管影片的故事不够吸引我，但摄影、剪辑、表演、声效、配乐等制作方面倒是让我觉得挺不错的。
感觉现在导演也不把小孩当小孩，植入很多新技术，很多新科技到电影里
充满戏剧张力的演绎，激烈的宗教冲突表现于街道一隅，在糟糕的时代里依然有金曲和电影。个人感觉是近期政治正确风里的一股清流，直面了更尖锐的身份认同问题，铁锈带般的爱尔兰之殇。
-0.5 拼贴画电影，能夸的地方很明显能挑的地方也太多，大到结构都有问题小到配乐都不会用。不过好在温柔地讲故事总没错，提醒每一个浪子都要记得，家乡永远有关心你的人。家乡外是彩色，家乡里是黑白——nostalgia果然是令人心碎的美丽。拿罗马相较是某种不恰当，各有各私人，共鸣大有差。糖衣太过夸张，这不过是糖衣外面那层糯米纸
叙事视角除了 Buddy 也有大人们的沉重严肃的展现 可是这样全景式的选取就会让每一次 Van Morrison 的柔化 暖心 俏皮的 MV 格外的迷惑 最后的三个群体都致敬果然是个靠时间靠糊弄弥合大团圆结局了 除此之外给演员的表演更是舞台化与特写镜头的叠加 做作而不自知吗 不 Kenneth Branagh 当然是明知而为之 尤其是妈妈的两场台词输出 solo 给了银幕和舞台彩色 电视却是黑白 2333 p.s. 最开始以为那个牧师提及的 good/bad road 岔路画会是 Buddy 内心对当年暴动的映照暗线 结果也是半程没过就丢了 _(:з)∠)_
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